Abstract: To improve pedestrian visibility. Provided is a headlight controller connectable to a first headlight and a second headlight spaced apart in a vehicle width direction at the front of the vehicle, the headlight controller including: a rainfall amount detection means installed in the vehicle; and a controller installed in the vehicle, where the controller is connected to the rainfall amount detection means, and the controller carries out control such that when rainfall amount detected by the rainfall amount detection means is equal to or more than a predetermined value, irradiation light from the first headlight becomes relatively darker than irradiation light from the second headlight.

Abstract: A light emitting element includes an element main body and a sapphire substrate 90. The element main body has an AlGaAs-based semiconductor layer 50, an n-type current diffusion layer 60, and a cap layer 70 of an InGa-based semiconductor that does not contains As as a component in a lamination direction. The amorphous layer 80 is interposed between the element main body and the sapphire substrate 90, and contains constituent elements of the cap layer 70 and the sapphire substrate 90 as components.

Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a substrate, a light-emitting element, and a resin material. The light-emitting element is disposed on the substrate. The resin material is made of a translucent thermosetting resin disposed at a peripheral area of the light-emitting element. The resin material has a plurality of closed spaces, and each of the plurality of closed spaces holds a resin body.

Abstract: To reduce a sense of discomfort during sequential blinking. A lighting controller for a vehicular lamp to control lighting of the vehicular lamp, where the lighting controller is configured to control so that a light emitting region of the vehicular lamp is repeatedly lighted on and off with a first luminance and where, during the time when the light emitting region is lighted on, at a partial region of the light emitting region, one or more bright spots are set with a second luminance that is higher than the first luminance to be moved within the light emitting region, or during the time when the light emitting region is lighted on, at the partial region of the light emitting region, one or more dark spots are set with a third luminance that is lower than the first luminance to be moved within the light emitting region.

Abstract: An image display system includes a projector that is mounted on a target vehicle and projects an image onto a road surface around the target vehicle, and an image controller that causes the projector to project a support image onto the road surface around the target vehicle when another vehicle traveling behind the target vehicle starts an operation of overtaking the target vehicle, and the support image includes at least one of an image showing a no-entry area which the other vehicle is prohibited from entering and an image showing a passage area through which the other vehicle is to pass during the overtaking operation.

Abstract: To accurately identify a vehicle state. An apparatus identifies a vehicle state and includes a controller connected with an angular velocity sensor and an acceleration sensor, where the controller acquires acceleration per unit time along a vehicle's longitudinal direction axis from the acceleration sensor, determines acceleration variation over a certain period of time, acquires angular velocity per unit time around vehicle's roll axis from the angular velocity sensor, determines the angular velocity variation during the certain period of time, and identifies the vehicle as a first state when the acceleration variation is greater than a first threshold value and the angular velocity variation is greater than a second threshold value, and identifies the vehicle as a second state when the acceleration variation is less than the first threshold value and the angular velocity variation is less than the second threshold value, and outputs the identified result.

Abstract: To provide a liquid crystal element having multiple alignment domains with a simple configuration. The liquid crystal element includes: a first and a second substrate; a liquid crystal layer inbetween the two substrates; and a seal material with an injection port; where a first and a second alignment film each has an alignment regulating force in one direction on a surface in contact with the liquid crystal layer, a polymerized monomer is present at the interface between each of the two alignment films and the liquid crystal layer; the liquid crystal layer has a first region close to the injection port and a second region far from the injection port; and the first region has a high polymer density and has a pretilt angle in a direction opposite to the alignment regulating force, and the second region has a pretilt angle in the same direction as the alignment regulating force.

Abstract: A surface emitting laser element formed of a group III nitride semiconductor, comprising: a first clad layer of a first conductivity type; a first guide layer of the first conductivity type having a photonic crystal layer formed on the first clad layer including voids disposed having two-dimensional periodicity in a surface parallel to the layer and a first embedding layer formed on the photonic crystal layer; a second embedding layer formed on the first embedding layer by crystal growth; an active layer formed on the second embedding layer; a second guide layer formed on the active layer; and a second clad layer of a second conductivity type formed on the second guide layer, the second conductivity type being a conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type. The first embedding layer has a surface including pits disposed at surface positions corresponding to the voids.

Abstract: A lamp device includes: a lamp unit; a radar unit having an antenna; and a shielding member which covers at least a part of the front surface of the radar unit where the antenna is provided and which is made of a foamed resin.

Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes a light source configured to emit light, a liquid crystal element configured to variably modulate a polarization state of the light emitted from the light source, a condensing optical system configured to condense the light emitted from the light source toward the liquid crystal element, a polarization beam splitter configured to transmit light containing one of polarized components of the light condensed by the condensing optical system toward the liquid crystal element and configured to reflect light containing the other polarized component of the light condensed by the condensing optical system toward the light source, and a scattering and reflecting member disposed at a surrounding of the light source and configured to scatter and reflect the light reflected by the polarization beam splitter toward the condensing optical system.

Abstract: A light source device 10 includes a laser diode 12 configured to emit laser light LDb, a fluorescent body 18 configured to generate primary fluorescence FL1 from the laser light LDb, a notch filter 38 configured to generate secondary fluorescence FL2 from the primary fluorescence FL1, an LED 30 configured to emit LED light LEb, and a dichroic mirror 40 configured to combine the secondary fluorescence FL2 and the LED light LEb.

Abstract: In a vehicular lamp, a polarization rotation element is disposed only in an optical path of second light from a second reflector toward a PBS, first light and the second light condensed toward a liquid crystal element are condensed at a first condensing point in common, the liquid crystal element is located at the first condensing point, the second light reflected by the PBS is condensed at a second condensing point deviated from the optical path of the light from a first reflector toward the PBS and the optical path of the second light from the second reflector toward the PBS.

Abstract: A second harmonic generation element includes a substrate, a first multilayer film reflecting mirror, a second harmonic generation layer, and a second multilayer film reflecting mirror. The first multilayer film reflecting mirror is formed on the substrate. The second harmonic generation layer is disposed on the first multilayer film reflecting mirror. The second harmonic generation layer is made of a SrB4O7 crystal that receives a fundamental wave with a predetermined wavelength and emits a second harmonic wave with a wavelength in an ultraviolet region. The second multilayer film reflecting mirror is formed on the second harmonic generation layer. The second multilayer film reflecting mirror constitutes a resonator with the first multilayer film reflecting mirror.

Abstract: An optical scanning device includes a mirror portion, a torsion bar extending along a resonance axis, an annular-shaped body coupled to the torsion bar from both sides of the resonance axis to rotate the mirror portion, and an intersection portion piezoelectric element and/or coupling portion piezoelectric elements formed in a rigidity adjustment region including an intersection portion of the torsion bar and the annular-shaped body to change a rigidity of the rigidity adjustment region when a voltage is applied.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling the temperature of a heater provided in a liquid crystal element is configured to apply a drive voltage which is set to a value relatively higher than when the liquid crystal element is operated at a rated voltage value and/or a rated frequency, to at least a partial region of the liquid crystal element, and detects current consumption flowing through the partial region. The apparatus variably sets a temperature control target value of the heater according to the detected magnitude of the current consumption.

Abstract: An optical scanning apparatus includes a mirror, a detection section, and a dummy capacitance section. The detection section generates capacitance between movable and fixed electrodes. The dummy capacitance section generates dummy capacitance between first and second electrodes. The four electrodes are provided on the same active layer and are separated. The active layer is arranged to face a support layer with an insulating layer in between. A first parasitic capacitance generated between the active layer including the fixed electrode and the support layer is equivalent to a second parasitic capacitance generated between the active layer including the first electrode and the support layer. The capacitance of the detection section and the first parasitic capacitance are connected in series, and the dummy capacitance and the second parasitic capacitance are connected in series.

Abstract: A projection lens has first-lens-body including first incidence part located in an area facing first light source and emission part located on a side opposite to the first incidence part, and second-lens-body including second incidence part located in an area facing second light source and third incidence part located between the first incidence part and the second incidence part, and has structure in which the first-lens-body and the second-lens-body abut against each other while first boundary surfaces and second boundary surfaces are interposed between the first-lens-body and the second-lens-body, the first boundary surfaces being provided between the emission part and the third incidence part, and the second boundary surfaces extending from boundary-line with respect to the first boundary surface until the first incidence part and the third incidence part, and the first boundary surfaces and the second boundary surfaces are disposed at acute angle while having the boundary-line disposed therebetween.

Abstract: A vehicular lamp fitting and the like capable of preventing the distance between a radar unit and the radar cover from changing are provided. A vehicular lamp fitting includes: a lamp housing; an outer lens attached to the lamp housing while covering an opening of the lamp housing, and forming a first space between the outer lens and the lamp housing; a lamp unit disposed in the first space; a radar housing; a radar cover attached to the radar housing while covering an opening of the radar housing, and forming a second space between the radar cover and the radar housing; a radar unit disposed in the second space; a first fixing part fixing the radar unit to the radar housing; and a second fixing part fixing the radar cover to the radar housing.

Abstract: To make conduction time (lighting time) of a light emitting element more uniform. A lighting control method in which a controller is used to drive a plurality of light source units connected in parallel to each other in a time-division manner, (a) where the controller includes: (b) to perform control of one switch element among a plurality of switch elements connected in series to each of the plurality of light source units to switch to a close state; (c) to start measuring a specified time when a current flowing through a current path between a power supply circuit and the plurality of light source units is equal to or greater than a threshold value; and (d) to perform control of the one switch element to switch to an open state when the specified time has elapsed.

Abstract: To accurately identify a vehicle state. An apparatus identifies a vehicle state and includes a controller connected with an angular velocity sensor and an acceleration sensor, where the controller acquires acceleration per unit time along a vehicle's longitudinal direction axis from the acceleration sensor, determines acceleration variation over a certain period of time, acquires angular velocity per unit time around vehicle's roll axis from the angular velocity sensor, determines the angular velocity variation during the certain period of time, and identifies the vehicle as a first state when the acceleration variation is greater than a first threshold value and the angular velocity variation is greater than a second threshold value, and identifies the vehicle as a second state when the acceleration variation is less than the first threshold value and the angular velocity variation is less than the second threshold value, and outputs the identified result.